SOS Goddammit

There's nothing remotely funny about Scotland on Sunday. But at the weekend in what they called "a wide-ranging interview" (we counted four questions! Now that's wide-ranging!), Bendy Wendy "angrily ridiculed any suggestion that she was on a political gravy train", pointing out "she earned far less now than she did when working in the private sector."

Stop sniggering at the back!

Scotland on Sunday's Eddie Barnes wrote: "Alexander was cleared by election chiefs last week despite wrongly accepting a £950 donation from a businessmen in Jersey."

I said stop sniggering!

"Actually, the thing is that, goddammit, I am poorer now than I have been in 20 years. I earned more in the private sector than I ever earned in politics," she declared.

She added: "You have to look the part as well, goddammit. I never had my hair highlighted in my life before. Whatever this is, it's not a gravy train."

Alexander called for a less cynical style of politics, revealing that she considers Buddhist mantras before leading political attacks against opponents. "(Politics] is not the sort of world where the Buddhist mantra of, 'is it true, is it necessary, and is it kind', is very often applied to a political speech. But I do sometimes give thought before I speak to whether those tests have been applied," she said.

Buddhist Accounting! Check the 'Cybernats' comments afterwards. Great stuff Eddie.